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By: Suman Negi, Technical Officer ‘B’

DESIDOC, DRDO, Delhi

Presentationat

NACLIN 14 (During 9-11 December 2014, Pondicherry)

Design and Development of Gyansrota:

DRDO Institutional Repository of Research Papers and Articles

GYANSROTA : DRDO INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY OF

RESEARCH PAPERS/ARTICLES

The Institutional Repository (IR) of Research

Papers/Articles named “Gyansrota” is a

centralised scholarly digital archiving

facility for acquiring, preserving and

disseminating the intellectual output which

is published in the form of Research Papers

by DRDO Scientists/Staff.

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NEED FOR INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

More than 50 labs/estts. across the country

Wide spectrum of R&D activities

Manpower approx 30,000 (Officers and staff)

Covers almost all areas of S&T domain

Generates huge amount of intellectual output in the

form of reports, patents, research papers, monographs

out of R&D projects

No centralised mechanism to collect, collate & index

this knowledge

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WHY DSPACE? Open source software World wide used for creating IR (E.g. IIT Mumbai & Delhi, IISc Bangalore,

IIM, Ahmedabad, NISCAIR, NTIS, NASA, MIT, Texas A&M University etc.) Easy to customise as per one’s need Design and configured in Java, XML GUI format as per DRDO

requirement. Create metadata as per DRDO requirement Multilingual metadata support Uses highly scalable postgreSQL as the database back-end Compliance with standards and protocols like Dublin Core, UNICODE Powerful search-engine based on Lucene, with customizable index and

full-text search Intuitive way of self archiving Well defined workflows

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H/W & S/W AT BACK-END

Platform LINUX OS

Software Used for IR DSpace Open Source Software Ver

1.7.2 - built on Apache web server and Tomcat Servlet engine

Database PostgreSQL relational database 6

CUSTOMISATION AT DESIDOCUser Interface

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1. Author2. Title3. Other Title4. Publication

Year5. Publisher6. Citation7. Identifiers8. Type9. Language10.Keywords11.Abstract12.Sponsores13.Description

Metadata Fields:Metadata

CUSTOMISATION AT DESIDOC

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CUSTOMISATION AT DESIDOC

Browse And Search

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INFRASTRUCTURE SETUP AT DESIDOC

ATIZ Bookdrive pro,

V shaped digital book

scanner

FUZITSU fi-6770

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Digitisation Process

Born digital data received from Labs

Step 1:

Pre-Scan Checking & Preparation

Step 2:

Scanning

Step 3:

Image Cleanup (if required)

Step 4:

Page Straightening & Deskewing

Step 5:

OCR & PDF Creation

Step 6:

Metadata Creation

Correspondence with DRDO laboratories across India to collect research papers/articles in print/digital form

The documents are scanned using ATIZ Book Drive Pro and fuzitsu, OCR and saved as TIF files.

Software used: Adobe Photoshop

Software used:Scan Tailor

Software used:

ABBY Fine Reader, Adobe Acrobat

Printed Materials

Check the completeness of documents

• State of the documents• Size of the documents• Place the research paper for scanning• Allocate batch number to reords/documents

Step 7&8:

Check Metadata&

Validate

Step 9

Upload file in the repository

IR(GYANSROTA): AT A GLANCE

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CHALLENGES

Technical knowhow

Collection of the contents

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CONCLUSION

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Repositories are an excellent tool

Significant

Avoidance of duplication

DSpace, an ultimate solution

Helps in managing the intellectual

asset

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